Scrounge vs Beg - What's the difference?
scrounge | beg |
To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
to request the help of someone, often in the form of money
to plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 58
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
to assume, in the phrase (beg the question)
(proscribed) to raise a question, in the phrase (beg the question)
(legal, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
* Harrington
As verbs the difference between scrounge and beg
is that scrounge is to hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean while beg is to request the help of someone, often in the form of money.As nouns the difference between scrounge and beg
is that scrounge is someone who scrounges; a scrounger while beg is a provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire, a bey.scrounge
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
- As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.
Synonyms
* (obtain from another) blag, cadge (UK), leech, sponge, wheedleDerived terms
* scroungerSee also
* scringe * scrooge * scrouge * scrungebeg
English
(wikipedia beg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), assimilation from (etyl) *.Verb
(begg)- He begged on the street corner from passers-by.
- I beg your pardon. I didn't mean to cause offence.
- He begged her to go to the prom with him .
- I do beg your good will in this case.
- [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus.
- But that same day came Sam Tewkesbury to the Why Not? about nightfall, and begged a glass of rum, being, as he said, 'all of a shake'
- Else some will beg thee, in the court of wards.